Bus & Recreational Vehicle Sheet Metal Fabrication

Dalsin provides custom sheet metal fabrication for OEMs producing motorhomes, travel trailers, and other recreational vehicle platforms. Our manufacturing capabilities can support individual metal components, formed panels, doors, cabinets, housings, storage components, and complete subassemblies.

Depending on product design and OEM requirements, Dalsin’s fabrication processes can be applied to:

• RV doors and door panels
• Exterior sheet metal panels
• Access panels
• Storage compartment components
• Metal cabinets and housings
• Equipment enclosures
• Interior fabricated panels
• Brackets and mounting components
• Formed structural components
• Welded assemblies
• Sheet metal subassemblies

RV product lines can include numerous models, floor plans, trim levels, and component configurations. That makes repeatable manufacturing processes and thoughtful part design especially important.

Dalsin’s engineering and manufacturing teams can review existing designs for opportunities to reduce unnecessary parts, simplify forming operations, limit secondary processes, and improve assembly efficiency.

Automated sheet metal punching, laser cutting, and panel bending also allow complex formed components to be produced with fewer equipment setups and fewer manual processing steps. Where appropriate, formed features can replace separate parts, welds, seams, or fasteners.

For RV OEMs, these design and manufacturing decisions can help reduce production complexity while maintaining the fit, appearance, and function required by the finished vehicle.

Manufacturing efficiency begins before a part reaches the production floor.

Dalsin’s Design for Manufacturing (DFM) process brings manufacturing experience into the engineering conversation. Our team can review customer designs and identify opportunities to improve how components are cut, formed, joined, finished, and assembled.

DFM reviews may identify opportunities to:

• Reduce component count
• Eliminate unnecessary welds or fasteners
• Combine multiple parts into a formed component
• Reduce equipment setups
• Improve material utilization
• Simplify assembly
• Improve dimensional consistency
• Select manufacturing processes better suited to production volumes
• Reduce total manufacturing cost without compromising required function

For both bus and RV manufacturers, these changes can be especially valuable when preparing a new product for production or evaluating an established design for cost reduction.

What metal components does Dalsin manufacture for buses?

Dalsin manufactures fabricated metal components and assemblies for bus OEMs, including transit bus doors, panels, access hoods, skin sets, formed components, and welded assemblies. Dalsin also has experience redesigning bus door and skin panel assemblies for improved manufacturability, fit, function, and production efficiency.

Does Dalsin provide sheet metal fabrication for recreational vehicles?

Yes. Dalsin provides precision sheet metal fabrication capabilities applicable to motorhomes, travel trailers, and recreational vehicle manufacturing. These capabilities can support doors, panels, cabinets, housings, storage components, brackets, formed parts, and other custom metal assemblies based on OEM specifications.

What materials does Dalsin fabricate for bus and RV manufacturers?

Dalsin commonly works with aluminum, stainless steel, carbon steel, and coated sheet materials. Material selection depends on structural, weight, appearance, corrosion-resistance, and manufacturing requirements.

Can Dalsin help redesign existing bus or RV components?

Yes. Dalsin provides Design for Manufacturing support to help OEM engineering teams evaluate component count, material selection, forming methods, joining processes, assembly operations, and other factors that affect manufacturing cost and repeatability.

Does Dalsin manufacture complete assemblies as well as individual parts?

Yes. Dalsin provides fabrication, welding, finishing, mechanical assembly, and electro-mechanical assembly capabilities. Depending on the product, Dalsin can supply individual fabricated components or completed subassemblies ready for the OEM’s production process.

What fabrication processes does Dalsin offer transportation manufacturers?

Dalsin’s capabilities include fiber laser cutting, automated sheet metal punching, automated panel bending, CNC forming, robotic and manual welding, hardware insertion, metal finishing, powder coating, machining, and assembly.